17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: in such manner is the tongue placed among our members, that it defileth all the body, and setteth on fire the circle of nature; and is set on fire of hell.

but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in discourse.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel together how they might lay a snare to entrap him in his discourse.

laying snares for him, and seeking to catch hold of something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they were unable to lay hold of a single expression of his before the people: and marvelling at his answer, they were silenced.

But when they shall deliver you up, be under no anxiety what ye shall say; for it shall be given you in that very hour what ye should speak:

Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

But the things which go forth out of the mouth, come out of the heart, and they are the things which defile a man:

And it came to pass, as they were departing from him, Peter said unto Jesus, it is well that we are here, and we will make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias; not knowing what he said.

Wherefore whatsoever things ye have spoken in darkness, they shall be reported in the light; and what ye have whispered into the ear in the closets, shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.

And watching him, they sent men they had suborned, who pretended that they were righteous persons, in order to lay hold of some word of his, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governor.

For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, he is a perfect man, and capable of reining in the whole body.

But I tell you, That every idle word which men speak, for it shall they give an account in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

And he said to him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow;